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32 produkter
Terrains of Exchange
Religious Economies of Global Islam
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2015
268 kr
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Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a proselytising global brand. …
Terrains of Exchange
Religious Economies of Global Islam
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2015
268 kr
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Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a proselytising global brand. …
Global Islam
A Very Short Introduction
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2020
111 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and …
Global Islam
A Very Short Introduction
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2020
92 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and …
Global Islam
A Very Short Introduction
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2020
92 kr
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This book presents the first comprehensive survey of the multiple versions of Islam propagated across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries during the era of modern globalization. Showing how Islam was transformed through these globalizing transfers, it traces the origins, expansion and …
Writing Travel in Central Asian History
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2014
935 kr
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For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the …
Writing Travel in Central Asian History
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2014
340 kr
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For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the …
How Asia Found Herself
A Story of Intercultural Understanding
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2022
312 kr
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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world’s largest continent “Mr. Green has written a book of rigorous—and refreshing—honesty.”—Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 The nineteenth century saw …
How Asia Found Herself
A Story of Intercultural Understanding
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2022
294 kr
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A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world''s largest continentThe nineteenth century saw European empires build vast transport networks to maximize their profits from trade, and it saw Christian missionaries spread printing across …
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian …
Religion, Language, and Power
Av Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee
Häftad, 2012
768 kr
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Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers …
Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian …
Religion, Language, and Power
Av Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers …
Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print
Av James L. Gelvin, Nile Green
Häftad, 2013
315 kr
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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried …
Afghanistan's Islam
From Conversion to the Taliban
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2016
306 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international …
Persianate World
The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world …
Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print
Av Nile Green, James L. Gelvin
E-bok, 2013
524 kr
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The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried …
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2011
1641 kr
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As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as …
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2009
955 kr
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Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as …
Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2015
428 kr
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In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down …
Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2020
298 kr
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How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's LondonIn July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, …
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2012
586 kr
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Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as …
Bombay Islam
The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2013
720 kr
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As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as …
Religion, Language, and Power
Av Mary Searle-Chatterjee, Nile Green
E-bok, 2008
901 kr
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Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other …
Religion, Language, and Power
Av Mary Searle-Chatterjee, Nile Green
E-bok, 2008
874 kr
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Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other …
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan
The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2024
314 kr
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Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural authenticity, father and son became master …
Love of Strangers
What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen''s London
Av Nile Green
E-bok, 2015
412 kr
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How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen''s London In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D''Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four …
Sufism
A Global History
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2012
1076 kr
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Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi …
Sufism
A Global History
Av Nile Green
Häftad, 2012
358 kr
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Since their beginnings in the ninth century, the shrines, brotherhoods and doctrines of the Sufis held vast influence in almost every corner of the Muslim world. Offering the first truly global account of the history of Sufism, this illuminating book traces the gradual spread and influence of Sufi …
Serendipitous Translations
A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean
Av Nile Green
Inbunden, 2026
645 kr
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The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources on Sri Lanka’s links with the Islamic world ever assembled in English.Sri Lanka is an underappreciated focal point of global history. Known to Persian and Arab traders as Serendib, the island has long been a site of intensive cultural and material …
